Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

One year ago, I wrote on Twitter that “my next API will be semantic XHTML”. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about Hypermedia APIs with HTML (and have done some prototyping). My dream API would use XHTML with RDFa, link to Atom feeds and offer an alternative JSON-LD representation. Here’s a few articles on…

The Typo3 Neos 2017 WCM Forecast has experts predict the future of Web content management, with some great quotes. Karen McGrane: “First, organizations will realize that WCMS doesn’t always support true multi-channel publishing. They will need to invest in new systems to decouple the authoring and storage layer from the presentation and publishing layer. This…

I’m currently learning/exploring RDFa (try searching my blog for “rdfa”). As a total newbie to the world of RDF and RDFa, these tools and resources have been helpful so far: First, the W3C RDFa 1.1 Primer is easy reading, a great introduction to RDFa. And it links to the full specifications (which are also well-written).…

A week ago, I wrote on Twitter: “A bit harsh, but: CxOs tend to fantasize, salespeople to lie, developers to underestimate. Poor project managers (and customers).” This wasn’t intended as a rant: These are common pitfalls which contribute to software projects not being finished on time (or not at all). It’s a well-known fact that…

Henrik Kniberg – The Solution to Technical Debt: “Crap gets into the code because programmers put it in! Let me make that crystal clear: Crappy Code is created by programmers. […] However, the most probable reason for why you are writing crappy code is: Pressure. […] Sometimes the cause of the pressure is the programmers…

Can you read Derek Sivers’ book Anything You Want (from 2011) and not want to start a company? I’ve been following Derek Sivers’ blog since 2004 so I was familiar with many of the stories he’s telling in the book. But I still loved to read it. Favorite quotes: “Business is not about money. It’s…

Jeff Atwood – The Rule of Three: “We think we’ve built software that is a general purpose solution to some set of problems, but we are almost always wrong. […] To build something truly reusable, you must convince three different audiences to use it thoroughly first. […] One customer or user or audience might be…

Ralph Windsor on Digital Asset Management News – Telerik Add Digital Asset Management To Sitefinity: “This does mark a clear point of convergence between WCM and DAM – an outcome which has been talked about for some time and now looks to be definitely happening. It’s interesting to note similar trends with DAM systems starting…